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Ralph J Diclemente

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April M YoungDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, 111 Washington Avenue, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USABMC Public Health 14:537. 2014

Adoption and implementation of a computer-delivered HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention for African American adolescent females seeking services at county health departments: implementation optimization is urgently needed

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April M YoungDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, 111 Washington Avenue, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USABMC Public Health 14:537. 2014

..This study examined HIV vaccine acceptability among high-risk drug users in a rural community in the United States...

Adoption and implementation of a computer-delivered HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention for African American adolescent females seeking services at county health departments: implementation optimization is urgently needed

..To identify the prevalence and correlates of selective avoidance (SA) of sexual intercourse among African American adolescent females at risk for sexually transmitted disease (STD) acquisition and transmission...

The mediating role of partner communication frequency on condom use among African American adolescent females participating in an HIV prevention intervention

..This study examined the mediating role of partner communication frequency on African American adolescent females' condom use postparticipation in a demonstrated efficacious HIV risk-reduction intervention...

Self-concept and adolescents' refusal of unprotected sex: a test of mediating mechanisms among African American girls

..Discordance between self-reported abstinence and incident STIs was marked among African American female adolescents. Lack of STI knowledge and sexual behavior peer norms may result in underreporting of sexual behaviors...

..To identify risk factors for laboratory confirmed sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence among low-income African American adolescent females living in a high-risk urban area of the Southern United States...

..Through these findings, we hope to better understand sexual risk taking and develop strategies that would overcome barriers to existing interventions aimed at improving the sexual health outcomes of young African-American women. ..

..African-American females are disproportionately affected by HIV and sexually transmissible infections (STIs). The prevalence of anal sex and its association with other sexual risk behaviours is understudied in this population...

Intimate partner violence and other partner-related factors: correlates of sexually transmissible infections and risky sexual behaviours among young adult African American women

..Two-way interactions indicated that having a casual sex partner and having multiple sex partners in the last 60 days increased the likelihood of STI, but only for adolescents who engaged in all three types...

Psychosocial predictors of HIV-associated sexual behaviors and the efficacy of prevention interventions in adolescents at-risk for HIV infection: what works and what doesn't work?

..This study examined high quantity of alcohol as a longitudinal predictor of risky sexual behavior and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among African-American female adolescents, a high-risk population for STDs...

Correlates of condom failure among adolescent males: an exploratory study

Richard A CrosbyDepartment of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, GA 30322, USAPrev Med 41:873-6. 2005

..To identify the prevalence and correlates of condom failure (defined as breakage or slipping off in the past 90 days) among a sample of adolescent males (15 to 21 years of age)...

Alcohol use as a marker for risky sexual behaviors and biologically confirmed sexually transmitted infections among young adult African-American women

..The present investigation indicates that the PACS is a reliable and valid measure of frequency of sexual communication between female adolescents and their parents. Utility of the PACS for researchers and practitioners is discussed...

Correlates of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine acceptability among parents and their adolescent children

..The objective was to explore associations between sex with a male recently released from incarceration and sexual risk and intimate partner violence (IPV) among African American adolescent females...

Applying ecological perspectives to adolescent sexual health in the United States: rhetoric or reality?

..The study also determined differences in these characteristics between adolescents who were and those who were not diagnosed with an STD...

Comparative effectiveness of a faith-based HIV intervention for African American women: importance of enhancing religious social capital

Gina M WingoodGina M Wingood and Ralph J DiClemente are with the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and the Emory Center for AIDS Research CFAR, Atlanta, GA LaShun R Robinson, Nikia D Braxton, Deja L Er, Anita C Conner, Tiffaney L Renfro, and Anna A Rubtsova are with the Rollins School of Public Health James W Hardin is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, ColumbiaAm J Public Health 103:2226-33. 2013

..We assessed the effectiveness of P4 for Women, a faith-based HIV intervention...

Masculinity, condom use self-efficacy and abusive responses to condom negotiation: the case for HIV prevention for heterosexual African-American men

..Findings from this study support expanding structural-level interventions, emphasizing both high school and college graduation, as a means of reducing vulnerability to STIs/HIV among African-American women...

The impact of depressive symptomatology on risky sexual behavior and sexual communication among African American female adolescents

..African American adolescent girls are at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, but interventions specifically designed for this population have not reduced HIV risk behaviors...

A randomized controlled trial to reduce HIV transmission risk behaviors and sexually transmitted diseases among women living with HIV: The WiLLOW Program

..To evaluate the efficacy of an intervention to reduce HIV transmission risk behaviors and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and enhance HIV-preventive psychosocial and structural factors among women living with HIV...

..Social capital was inversely correlated with sexual risk behaviors and positively correlated with protective sexual behaviors. Further and more comprehensive research involving social capital and adolescents is warranted...

Correlates of recent unprotected anal sex among men having sex with men attending a large sex resort in the South

..Noticeably absent from the known risk factors for HPV infection is history of sexual abuse. The current study examined the association between sexual abuse and incident high-risk HPV among young adult black women...

..The objective of this study was to prospectively assess the relationship of low perceived parental monitoring with incidence of biologically confirmed pregnancy among a sample of low-income African-American adolescent females...